17th September, 2021

8.30 – 18.00

FSEM 17th ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

EXERCISE IS MEDICINE

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

CPD: 10 EXTERNAL CREDITS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Deans Address Page 1

Chairpersons Address Page 2

Conference Committee Page 3

Programme Outline Pages 3 - 5

Speakers Biographies Pages 6 - 15

Sponsors Page 16

DEANS ADDRESS

Dr Philip E. Carolan, Dean of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine. On behalf of

the Board of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine, I would like to welcome all

delegates and speakers, to our 17th Annual Scientific Conference.

Last year we had to cancel our Annual Scientific Conference owing to the COVID 19

crisis and we are delighted to host our virtual Conference with the assistance of

Medcafe and our sponsors.

This year’s conference is focused on the subject of “Exercise is Medicine” and in conjunction with Exercise

is Medicine Ireland (EIM), the conference will focus on the benefits of exercise in multiple medical disciplines

and pathologies.

Our working committee under the chairmanship of Dr.Wilby Williamson & Dr Matt Herring have put

together a very exciting programme with world renowned speakers covering many themes and conditions

where exercise can be an important part of the management and treatment.

The Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine look forward to hosting our first conference on “Exercise is

Medicine”, and we hope to develop further educational and CPD activities in Exercise Medicine for our

Fellows and members.

We are delighted that our parent College, RCSI has been recognised as an “Exercise is Medicine Campus” in

2021

I hope that you will all enjoy this conference very much and l look forward to meeting with you all when we

are able to host our next live Conference.

I sincerely acknowledge the organisation and input of Annemarie Creighton and Stephanie Billault in the

FSEM Office, in helping to make this conference a success.

Dr. Philip E. Carolan

Dean of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, RCPI & RCSI

CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME ADDRESS

On behalf of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (FSEM), partnered with the

Exercise is Medicine® (EIM) Ireland National Centre, I welcome you all to our 17th

Annual Scientific Conference.

We have an excellent panel of transdisciplinary national and international speakers

who will focus on a diverse range of topics within our overall theme of Exercise is

Medicine. Our speakers will highlight the importance of exercise for population

health, exercise as treatment for cardiometabolic conditions, vascular health, and

cancer across the lifespan and in important subsamples of the population, and the role of exercise in brain

health and the management of pain. I would like to thank all of our speakers, particularly our nine

international speakers for navigating the logistics necessary to share their research and expertise across

different time zones.

I would like to thank the organizing committee for their time and hard work in assembling this excellent

programme. In particular, I would like to acknowledge and thank my Co-Chair, Dr. Matthew Herring,

Director of Exercise is Medicine® Ireland National Centre, for his help in organizing the Exercise is Medicine

focus of this year’s Annual Scientific Conference. We hope that you will agree that the partnership between

FSEM and EIM Ireland is critically important to galvanizing the EIM-related activities across Ireland to

improve population health through recognizing, assessing, and implementing physical activity as a vita l sign

for health.

I also would like to thank the Chairs for this year’s sessions, including Dr. Brian Carson, Professor Suzanne

McDonough, Dr. Grainne O’Donoghue, and Dr. Helen French, for their time and commitment to facilitating

the programme on the day. We would like to sincerely thank our new and returning sponsors, and would

encourage each of you to support them. Additionally, we would like to acknowledge our gratitude to British

Journal of Sports Medicine for approving this year’s Conference as a quality international education activity.

Finally, I would be remiss not to acknowledge our strong wish that we had been able to share this

Conference in person, but the health and safety of all remains our key focus. To this end, we would like to

say a very special thank you to Bill Coghlan from MedCafe and Annemarie Creighton from RCSI for their

tireless effort in bringing this virtual conference to life.

I hope that you enjoy this Conference and we look forward to engaging with you during the day.

Dr. Wilby Williamson

National Clinical Director Lifestyle and Integrative Health VHI Health and Well-Being

Assistant Professor Trinity College Dublin

Consultant Sports and Exercise Medicine

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

CO-CHAIRS

Dr Wilby Williamson

Dr Matt Herring

COMMITTEE

Prof Suzanne McDonough

Dr Grainne O’Donoghue

Dr Brian Carson

Dr Helen French

Mr Seamus Morris

FSEM CONFERENCE ORGANISER

Ms Annemarie Creighton

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PROGRAMME OUTLINE

Time FSEM & EIM Welcome Speaker

0830-0840 FSEM Ireland Dr Philip Carolan

0840-0850 EIM Ireland Dr Matt Herring

Dr Brian Carson

Population Health Chair: Dr Matt Herring

0850-0905 Sport for Health Dr Una May

0905-0920 Physical Activity in Healthcare: the Irish Get up Get dressed Get moving network

Ms Deirdre Lang

0920-0940 What’s new and what can I do to promote physical activity?

Prof Charlie Foster

0940-1000 Panel Discussion

1000-1010 Break

Obesity & Diabetes 1 Chair: Dr Brian Carson

1010-1025 Exercise in child and adolescent obesity treatment

Dr Grace O’Malley

1025-1040 Why exercise in pregnancy? Dr Fionnuala McAuliffe

1040-1055 Exercise, Physical Activity and Severe Obesity

Dr Francis Finucane

1055-1110 Panel Discussion

Obesity & Diabetes 2 Chair: Dr Grainne O'Donoghue

1110-1115 Active Break

1115-1135 Exercise in the Prevention and

Treatment of Hypertension and

Associated Cardiovascular Risk

Dr Henner Hanssen

1135-1155 Exercise and Weight Loss and the long

term impact on adults with type 2 diabetes: Lessons from the Look AHEAD Study?

Dr Edward Gregg

1155-1215 Discussion

1215-1300 Lunch

Exercise, Brain Health & Pain Management Chair: Dr Helen French

1300-1315 Exercise Training for Anxiety Dr Matt Herring

1315-1330 Managing LBP and promoting health:

the role of physical activity

Prof Suzanne McDonough

1330-1350 Exercise for Brain Health in Older Adults

Prof J Carson Smith

1350-1410 Functional Neural Consequences of

Post-Exertional Malaise

Prof Dane Cook

1410-1430 Panel Discussion

1430-1440 Break

Cancer & Exercise Chair: Prof Suzanne McDonough

1440-1445 Active Break

1445-1500 Siel Bleu Ireland - The Empower

Programme

Mr Thomas McCabe

1500-1520 Exploring Exercise Prehabiliation and

Rehabilitation in Cancer Care

Dr Emer Guinan

1520-1540 Exercise Oncology: Past, guidelines

and future

Prof Kristin Campbell

1540-1600 Panel Discussion

1600-1635 Break

Heart & Vascular Health Chair: Dr Matt Herring

1635-1655 The “Sweet Spot” of Exercise Dose to

Prevent or Reverse Cardiovascular

Aging (and Optimize Cardiovascular

Health)

Dr Benjamin Levine

1655-1715 Optimal exercise programs for peripheral artery disease

Dr Mary McDermott

1715-1735 TILDA: Metabolic Syndrome Physical Activity

Prof Rose Anne Kenny

1735-1755 Panel Discussion

1755-1800 Close Dr Matt Herring

FRIDAY MORNING 8.30-12.15

SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES

8.30 – 10.00

FSEM / Exercise is Medicine Welcome & Population Health

Dr Matt Herring, Dept of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, & Director of the Exercise is Medicine

National Centre, University of Limerick

Matthew P. Herring, PhD, FACSM is a Senior Lecturer at University of Limerick

(UL) affiliated with the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences and

the Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster of the UL Health Research

Institute, a Visiting Research Fellow in Medical Gerontology with The Irish

Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin, and Director of

the Exercise is Medicine® Ireland National Centre. He received BSc in Psychology,

MEd in Counselling, MSc in Exercise Science, and PhD in Exercise Psychology

degrees from The University of Georgia in the United States before completing

a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Exercise Psychology at the University of South Carolina. Following post-

doctoral work, he joined the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

before joining UL in August 2014.

His research focuses on relations of physical activity and exercise with mental health, particularly

anxiety, and their plausible psychobiological underpinnings across the age and health continuums. Dr.

Herring’s research has critically enhanced our understanding of the role of meeting recommended

levels of physical activity in protecting and improving anxiety, the role of exercise training, especially

resistance exercise training, in the treatment of subclinical and clinical anxiety (i.e., Generalized

Anxiety Disorder), and the modifiable factors which may contribute to variability in anxiety response

to exercise training.

Dr Brian Carson, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences department, Co-Director of

the Exercise is Medicine National Centre, University of Limerick

Dr Brian Carson is an Exercise Physiologist in the Physical Education and Sport

Sciences department and Co-Director of the Exercise is Medicine National

Centre at the University of Limerick. Brian's research interests are primarily

focused on the plasticity and metabolic adaptation of skeletal muscle in

response to exercise and how this can be modified through interaction with

nutrition. Brian’s current research projects are investigating exercise and

nutrient interventions to optimise skeletal muscle and whole body metabolism

in populations across the health and lifespan.

Dr Una May, Director of Participation and Ethics, Sport Ireland

Dr Una May has worked with Sport Ireland (previously the Irish Sports Council) since 1998 and has managed the Irish Sports Council Anti-Doping Program since 2001. She is currently the Director of Participation and Ethics in Sport Ireland. She has a PhD in Exercise Physiology (1996) and a BSc (Hons) in Sports Science (1991) from John Moores University, Liverpool. She has represented Ireland in both orienteering and mountain running. Una has been a member of a team of Independent Observers appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency to monitor

the anti-doping programme at the UCI cycling world championships (2001), the Olympic Games in both Athens (2004) and Turin (2006) and also chaired the team of independent observers at the World Athletics Championships in 2005 and the World Games in 2009. She is a member of the Implementation oversight Group of the National Physical Activity Plan and formerly a Lay representative on the Board of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine. She also represents Sport Ireland on the All-Island Obesity Action Forum, the LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy Oversight Committee, National Volunteer strategy Group, Comhairle na Tuaithe, Expert Group on Return to Sport and the Town Centres First Advisory Group.

Ms Deirdre Lang, Director of Nursing/National Lead Older Persons Services/Clinical & Integrated

Programmes, Office of Nursing & Midwifery Services Director

Ms Deirdre Lang: RGN, Scottish Quality & Safety Fellow (Cohort 10), FFNMRCSI,

MSc Leadership, BNS (Hons), Dip Mgt, HDip Gerontological Nursing, HETAC

level 6 Special award in coaching. Honorary Teach Associate FFNMRCSI. Deirdre

initially trained in St Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park, as a Registered General Nurse.

During the early part of her career she spent a number of years working in acute

services both in Australia and in Ireland. She has had a variety of experiences in

healthcare, having worked in mental health nursing and in practice

development. Her experience in Older Persons Services includes the role of Clinical Nurse Manger 2,

Assistant Director of Nursing and Director of Nursing both in the HSE and private sector. Her role as

Director of Nursing Older Persons Services brings together all aspects of her experience to date,

together with her passion for the older patient and those who provide their care.

Prof Charlie Foster, Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health & Director, Centre for Exercise,

Nutrition and Health Sciences, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol

Charlie Foster is a global leader in systematic reviews and meta-analysis of the

evidence base for physical activity, with reviews on epidemiology, correlates,

interventions and evaluation of natural experiments.

He has published over 200 papers including research in JAMA, the Lancet and the

BMJ, with over 100 as senior author. He has global guidelines development,

policy and advocacy experience working with WHO, EC, and CDC USA. He has

worked on numerous evidence reviews and evaluations project for Sport England since 2004 and is

actively researching the application of systems approaches to sport and physical activity promotion.

Since 2015 he has been the Chair of the UK Chief Medical Officers Expert Committee for Physical

Activity, providing advice on exercise and physical activity direct to the CMOs, DHSC and UK

Government. He has led the work and produced the final report for the UK CMO 2019 physical activity

guidelines. He was awarded an OBE in the 2019 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for services to

physical activity promotion. Recently he has been advising on COVID-19 and physical activity for the

UK CMOs. He feels the promotion of physical activity is both an art and a science.

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10.10 – 12.15

Obesity & Diabetes

Dr Grace O’Malley, Principal Investigator of the Obesity Research and Care Group at RCSI

University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Dr Grace O’Malley is a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Paediatric

Endocrinology and is Principal Investigator of the Obesity Research and Care

Group at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her clinical experience

spans 17 years working in clinical paediatrics in Ireland, South Africa, and the USA

in the treatment of paediatric respiratory, musculoskeletal,

neurodevelopmental, rheumatological and endocrinological conditions and rare

diseases. Grace completed a research MSc (TCD) in paediatric musculoskeletal

and cardiorespiratory health and a PhD in Medicine (Epidemiology and Public Health from UCC)

exploring the design and evaluation of complex interventions for managing paediatric obesity. Grace

was awarded a Fulbright Award to conduct clinical research exploring the pathophysiology of Type 2

Diabetes in pediatric obesity (Dept of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale University, USA) in addition to a

HRB PhD Fellowship which included training in paediatric telemedicine and digital health (UC Davis

Center for Health and Technology and the University of Southern California Mobile and Connected

Health Program).

The current focus of Dr. O’Malley’s clinical and research work is in paediatric bariatric care, developing

and examining evidence-based interventions for severe obesity and related complications in children

and adolescents. Grace is a committee member of the Association for the Study of Obesity on the

Island of Ireland (https://asoi.info) and Secretary of the European Association for the Study of Obesity

(https://easo.org/). Grace is committed to ensuring all children have access to quality healthcare in

line with UNCRC and that regardless of ability, childhood physical function, activity and fitness are

optimised through fun exercise therapies and play-based interventions.

Dr Fionnuala McAuliffe, Head of Women’s and Child’s Health, University College Dublin

Fionnuala McAuliffe is a Full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at National

Maternity Hospital Dublin, Head of Women’s and Child’s Health at University

College Dublin and Director of the UCD Perinatal Research Centre, a

multidisciplinary research centre aiming to improve outcome for mother and

baby though clinically relevant pregnancy research

She has received significant grant funding both nationally and internationally

(circa €25 million as coPI/PI) and has circa 350 peer reviewed publications. Recently she has developed

a pregnancy nutrition app ‘Hollestic’ and has developed guidelines for pregnancy in Ireland, UK and

internationally.

She is an executive council member of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

(FIGO) and is a member of FIGO Pregnancy Non-Communicable Diseases Committee and co-lead of

the FIGO pregnancy obesity and nutrition initiative. She is now the Chair of FIGO committee on Impact

of Pregnancy on long term Health.

Dr Francis Finucane, Consultant Endocrinologist, Galway University Hospital

Francis Finucane is a consultant endocrinologist at Galway University Hospital and

an honorary personal professor at NUIG. He graduated from RCSI, completed

clinical training in Dublin and was awarded an MD from the University of Dublin

(TCD) for research on the influence of exercise in young people with type 2

diabetes. Then he completed a four-year MRC-funded post-doctoral fellowship at

the Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge, where he studied the effects of

exercise on metabolic risk in older people. In Galway, he leads a regional bariatric

medical service for patients with severe and complicated obesity. He is the course director for

Ireland’s first and only MSc programme in obesity at NUIG.

Prof Henner Hanssen, Head of Preventive Sports Medicine and Systems Physiology, Department of

Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel

Prof. Hanssen is Head of Preventive Sports Medicine and Systems Physiology at

the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel,

Switzerland. He is nucleus member of the Primary Care and Risk Factor

Management Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology

(EAPC). Within the European Society of Microcirculation (ESM), he is chair-elect

of the Retinal Microvascular Research working group. His research interests are

focused on the effects of exercise therapy on vascular ageing across the lifespan

in a systems physiology approach.

Prof Edward Gregg, Professor and Chair in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology,

School of Public Health, Imperial College

Edward W. Gregg serves as a Professor and Chair in Diabetes and Cardiovascular

Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London

where he leads a research programme devoted to understanding the causes,

dynamics, and prevention of cardiometabolic disease and related morbidity.

This includes leadership and contribution to multi-center studies of the impact

of lifestyle interventions and health services and health policy interventions on

diabetes and its morbidity. This work has involved evaluation of US and UK-

based public programmes on diabetes and its morbidity and collaboration with investigators in China

on the Da Qing Diabetes Prevention Follow-up Study, and the US-based Look AHEAD study. He has

also served as principal investigator of major national studies, including the TRIAD Study (Translating

Research into Action for Diabetes), conceptualized and developed national research programs

including the NEXTD (Natural Experiments in Translation for Diabetes) Networks. He also spent 12

years leading a multi-disciplinary science unit and the US National Diabetes Surveillance System at the

Centers for Disease Control Prevention to guide decisions related to national diabetes prevention

policies. Guide public health decision making. He has published more than 350 peer reviewed articles

and chapters and was awarded the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2016 Kelly West Award for

Excellence in Diabetes Epidemiology and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) 2015 award for

Epidemiology award for Epidemiology.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON 13.00-18.00

SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES

13.00-14.30

Exercise, Brain Health, and Pain Management

Dr Matt Herring, Dept of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, University of Limerick

Matthew P. Herring, PhD, FACSM is a Senior Lecturer at University of Limerick

(UL) affiliated with the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences and

the Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster of the UL Health Research

Institute, a Visiting Research Fellow in Medical Gerontology with The Irish

Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin, and Director of the

Exercise is Medicine® Ireland National Centre. He received BSc in Psychology,

MEd in Counselling, MSc in Exercise Science, and PhD in Exercise Psychology

degrees from The University of Georgia in the United States before completing a Post-Doctoral

Fellowship in Exercise Psychology at the University of South Carolina. Following post-doctoral work,

he joined the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham before joining UL in

August 2014.

His research focuses on relations of physical activity and exercise with mental health, particularly

anxiety, and their plausible psychobiological underpinnings across the age and health continuums. Dr.

Herring’s research has critically enhanced our understanding of the role of meeting recommended

levels of physical activity in protecting and improving anxiety, the role of exercise training, especially

resistance exercise training, in the treatment of subclinical and clinical anxiety (i.e., Generalized

Anxiety Disorder), and the modifiable factors which may contribute to variability in anxiety response

to exercise training.

Prof Suzanne McDonough, Head of RCSI School of Physiotherapy

Professor Suzanne McDonough is a Professor and Head of RCSI School of

Physiotherapy, and holds professorial appointments at Ulster University UK, and

University of Otago, NZ; and is a visiting Professor with the University of

Southampton. Suzanne obtained her undergraduate degree in physiotherapy at

University College Dublin (UCD) in 1989; was awarded her PhD in

neurophysiology from Newcastle University, UK, in 1995; and a higher

diploma in healthcare (acupuncture) in 2002 from UCD. Suzanne has supervised 30 PhD students to

date, has published widely in her area of expertise (over 100 papers; H-index=43) related to physical

activity, exercise and rehabilitation of various movement conditions.

Suzanne is expert in the development and evaluation of rehabilitation interventions in clinical

populations with movement challenges (e.g. due to pain, neurological injury, ageing etc.). Suzanne

has experience of conducting trials in Ireland, UK and Canada to understand how people with painful

conditions can be supported to safely walk more in order to meet the physical activity guidelines. She

is also interested in the role exercise and physical activity can play in reducing pain levels and

improving day to day function over time.

Prof J Carson Smith, School of Public Health, University of Maryland

Prof Smith graduated summa cum laude with a double major in Psychology and

Exercise Science from Arizona State University. He went on to complete his

doctoral degree in Kinesiology at the University of Georgia, and then a post-

doctoral fellowship in Affective Neuroscience at the University of Florida. Prof

Smith is focused on understanding how exercise and physical activity, from single

sessions of exercise to long-term exercise training, affect human brain function

and cognition, particularly in older adults. Prof Smith's investigations use

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), neuropsychological testing, and analyses of blood biomarkers to

document how exercise protects the brain from age-related cognitive decline, as well as mental health

problems such as depression and anxiety. Prof Smith and his team of collaborators are currently

interested in the potential efficacy for exercise to affect brain function and protect memory in healthy

older adults at increased genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease, as well as in patients diagnosed with

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

Prof Dane Cook, Director of the Exercise Psychology laboratories at the William S. Middleton

Memorial Veterans Hospital and the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Prof Dane B. Cook is the Director of the Exercise Psychology laboratories at the

William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital and the University of

Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the Director of the Marsh Center for Research in

Exercise and Movement within the Department of Kinesiology at UW-Madison.

He received his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Exercise Science at the

University of Georgia in Athens, GA and he received post-doctoral training in

neuroscience at the University of Medicine and Dentistry (Rutgers) in Newark, NJ.

Prof Cook’s research focuses on the relationships between biology and behaviour as they relate to

acute and chronic exercise, with a specific focus on how exercise influences the central nervous system

in both health and disease. Much of Prof Cook’s research uses functional magnetic resonance imaging

(fMRI), in conjunction with biological and behavioural outcomes, to understand central nervous

system mechanisms of pain and fatigue in people with fibromyalgia (FM), myalgic encephalomyelitis

/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Veterans with Gulf War illness (GWI). These studies combine

exercise science and brain imaging methods to better understand these diseases. Prof Cook’s research

also incorporates additional biological systems, such as the immune, autonomic, and gut microbiome

to better understand how distinct yet related physiological responses interact within disease.

Prof Cook's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense,

and Department of Veterans Affairs. His laboratory is currently testing how acute exercise influences

autonomic, immune and brain responses during pain and cognitive challenges – a mechanistic study

of post exertion malaise in Gulf War Illness (Merit Review Grant Award: I01CX0011329-01). In separate

projects (Merit Review Award: Grant # 1I01CX000383-04; Grand Challenges Award), Prof Cook’s lab is

examining symptom, physical activity and brain responses to resistance exercise training in Gulf War

veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain, as well as, brain inflammation in GWI and ME/CFS.

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14.45 - 16.00

Cancer & Exercise

Mr Thomas McCabe, National Manager, Siel Bleu

Thomas joined Siel Bleu Ireland in February 2013 and stepped into the role as

National Manager in May 2014. In that time, Siel Bleu Ireland has grown from an

organisation delivering services to 750 per week, to 6,500 people per week and

developed community based programmes for people living with COPD, Stroke,

Cancer and Parkinsons. Previous to joining Siel Bleu Ireland, Thomas worked in

Waterford Institute of Technology as Sport Scholarship Coordinator.

Dr Emer Guinan, Faculty of Health Sciences, Trinity College Dublin

Dr Emer Guinan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine with

responsibility for the Interprofessional Learning programme for the Faculty of

Health Sciences. Her main research interest is in the role of exercise and physical

activity in ameliorating treatment side effects and optimising survivorship for

patients with cancer. Her work considers both the therapeutic and the

physiological impact of exercise programmes. She has a particular interest in the

role of exercise for patients with complex cancer presentations including patients

with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract and those with advanced disease. She has been awarded

>€1.6 million in research funding as either principle investigator or co-applicant from external peer-

reviewed grants (Health Research Board, Irish Cancer Society, Medical Charities Research Group),

external research bursaries (Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists) and internal competitions

from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Trinity College. She has published over 50 peer reviewed

publications and 1 book chapter.

Professor Kristin Campbell, Associate Head Research Medicine, Dept of Physical Therapy,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Kristin Campbell, BSc, PT, PhD is a licensed physical therapist and a Professor in

the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia. She

also holds an appointment in the Cancer Control Program at the BC Cancer

Research Centre.

Prof Campbell’s research is focus on exercise rehabilitation in oncology. She

examines the impact of physical activity and structured exercise to improve the

management of common side effects of cancer treatments and clinically

relevant outcomes, such as ability to receive the planned chemotherapy dose. Her work spans

research designs from feasibility testing to implementation studies in collaboration with clinical and

community partners

Her research has been funded by the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute, Canadian Institutes

of Health Research and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and others. She has given over

60 invited talks to national or international audiences and published over 135 peer reviewed

publications (H-index 43). She is the co-lead of the 2019 exercise guidelines for cancer survivors from

the American College of Sports Medicine and in 2020 received a Distinguished Achievement Award

for Overall Excellence Mid-Career from the Faculty of Medicine at UBC.

She is also a member of the Oncology Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and a Fellow

of the American College of Sports Medicine. She is associate editor for Physical Therapy, the journal

of the American Physical Therapy Association, and the Translational Journal of the American College

of Sports Medicine (TJACSM).

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16.30 – 18.00

Heart and Vascular Health

Dr Benjamin Levine, Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine (IEEM), Texas Health

Presbyterian Hospital

Dr. Levine is the founder and Director of the Institute for Exercise and

Environmental Medicine (IEEM) at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

where he also holds the S. Finley Ewing Chair for Wellness and the Harry S. Moss

Heart Chair for Cardiovascular Research. He is Professor of Internal

Medicine/Cardiology and Distinguished Professor of Exercise Sciences at the

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Levine earned his B.A.

magna cum laude in human biology from Brown University and his M.D. from

Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford

University Medical Center followed by a cardiology fellowship at UT Southwestern where he trained

under the renowned cardiovascular physiologists Gunnar Blomqivst, M.D. and Jere Mitchell, M.D. Dr.

Levine founded the IEEM in 1992 which has become one of the premier laboratories in the world for

the study of human clinical and integrative physiology.His global research interests center on the

adaptive capacity of the circulation in response to exercise training, deconditioning, aging, and

environmental stimuli such as spaceflight and high altitude. A Henry Luce Foundation and Fulbright

Scholar, he received the Peter van Handel Award from the United States Olympic Committee (for

outstanding research), the Research Award from the Wilderness Medical Society, the Honor Award

from the Texas Chapter of American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the Citation Award from

the National ACSM for his body of work. A consummate clinician and teacher as well as a scholar, he

was elected to the Association of University Cardiologists, the American Association of Physicians,

received the Michael J. Joyner International Teaching Award from the Danish Cardiovascular Research

Academy, and has been selected as one of the “Best Doctors” for cardiovascular medicine in Dallas

and America multiple times by his peers.

Dr. Levine is a renowned sports cardiologist who sees athletes with cardiovascular medical problems

from around the world and serves as a consultant to the NCAA, the NHL, the NFL, the USOC, USA Track

and Field, and other athletic organizations. He has been a key contributor to the guidelines for the

management of athletes with heart disease since 1994. Dr. Levine also has a unique background in

space medicine, serving as a co-investigator on 4 Spacelab missions (SLS-1, SLS-2, D-2 and Neurolab),

the MIR space station, and recently was the PI of a large cardiovascular experiment on the

International Space Station (ISS), called the “ICV”. He was also awarded by NASA the “most Compelling

Results from the ISS” in 2013. He has a long, sustained track record of funding by the NIH, NASA and

the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), for which he became Team Leader of the

Cardiovascular Section in 2007 and he currently advises NASA’s flight surgeons on cardiovascular

medical issues. His work with astronauts has translated into one of his other areas of clinical expertise,

namely patients with syncope (fainting) and orthostatic intolerance (the inability to stand up and

withstand the effects of gravity on Earth).

Dr. Levine has published > 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, book chapters, and technical

papers, and is currently serving on the editorial boards of numerous journals, Dr. Levine is a Fellow of

the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), American Heart Association, the American College

of Cardiology, and the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society; he served as VP

and member of the Board of Trustees of ACSM, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the

American Autonomic Society.

Dr Mary McDermott, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Mary M. McDermott MD is the Jeremiah Stamler Professor of Medicine and

Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr.

McDermott is a physician scientist and clinical trialist whose research focuses on

lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD). Dr. McDermott’s research

program in PAD is currently funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute,

National Institute on Aging, and American Heart Association. Dr. McDermott is an

elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of

Physicians. She is an American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist. Dr. McDermott was the 2021

recipient of the John M. Eisenberg Award for Career Achievement in Research.

Prof Rose Anne Kenny, TCD & The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

Professor Rose Anne Kenny holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity

College Dublin and is the Founder and Principal Investigator of The Irish

Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Ireland’s flagship research project in ageing.

Professor Kenny’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of

neurocardiovascular ageing. In 2016, she launched a new 120 bedded clinical

research institute on the site of Ireland’s largest teaching hospital (St. James’s

Hospital), where she is Director of a state of the art dedicated falls and syncope

facility – the largest such clinical model in Europe and an exemplar for the newly proposed Academic

Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) at St James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin. Prior to her present

appointments, she held the Chair of Cardiovascular Research at the University of Newcastle Upon

Tyne, UK, where she was Head of the Academic Department of Medical Gerontology for 12 years.

Professor Kenny has held a number of senior positions including, Chair of the American Geriatric

Society: Falls Prevention Guidelines (2001 & 2011), Chair of the European Cardiac Society/ European

Heart Rhythm Association Guidelines for Syncope units (2015), Member of the European Cardiac

Society (ECS) Syncope Guidelines Taskforce 2018, Board Member of the EU H2020 Advisory Group for

Societal Challenge and Co-Chair of the working group “Transforming the Future of Ageing” lead by the

Scientific Advisory Policy by European Academies (SAPEA). She is also Advisor to the Irish Government

for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on Ageing. She has received a

number of international awards and has published widely, authoring over 600 publications to date. In

2014, she was the first female physician to be elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA)

and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, London and Ireland (FRCPEdin, FRCP &

FRCPI), a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (FTCD) and newly appointed Honorary Fellow of the Faculty

of Public Health Medicine (FFPHMI (Hon)).

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